Patents Assigned to Global Technologies LLC
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Patent number: 8916640Abstract: Blended polyolefin dispersions, including: (A) a liquid; (B) an olefin-based polymer dispersed in the liquid, the dispersed olefin-based polymer having an average particle size ranging from 0.1 to 5 microns; and (C) an alpha-beta unsaturated carboxylic acid-based polymer dispersed in the liquid, the dispersed alpha-beta unsaturated carboxylic acid-based polymer having an average particle size ranging from 0.02 microns to 1 micron. Coatings, froths, foams, toners, and other various uses for the blended dispersions are also disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: August 28, 2007Date of Patent: December 23, 2014Assignee: Dow Global Technologies LLCInventors: Mark W. VanSumeren, Ronald Wevers, Charles F. Diehl, Gary M. Strandburg, Brad M. Moncla, Kevin D. Maak
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Patent number: 8915030Abstract: The present invention is premised upon a photovoltaic device suitable for directly mounting on a structure. The device includes an active portion including a photovoltaic cell assembly having a top surface portion that allows transmission of light energy to a photoactive portion of the photovoltaic device for conversion into electrical energy and a bottom surface having a bottom bonding zone; and an inactive portion immediately adjacent to and connected to the active portion, the inactive portion having a region for receiving a fastener to connect the device to the structure and having on a top surface, a top bonding zone; wherein one of the top and bottom bonding zones comprises a first bonding element and the other comprises a second bonding element, the second bonding element designed to interact with the first bonding element on a vertically overlapped adjacent photovoltaic device to bond the device to such adjacent device or to the structure.Type: GrantFiled: October 20, 2010Date of Patent: December 23, 2014Assignee: Dow Global Technologies LLCInventors: Michelle L. Boven, James R. Keenihan, Stan Lickly, Claude Brown, Jr., Robert J. Cleereman, Timothy C. Plum
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Patent number: 8915082Abstract: An engine is described having an engine control unit and two or more hydraulically operated wheels, wherein a fluid is flowed from an accumulator to the engine via the first wheel to assist in acceleration of the turbocharger in response to an acceleration signal from the engine control system and wherein the fluid is flowed from the engine to the accumulator via the second wheel to decelerate the turbocharger in response to a deceleration signal from the engine control unit. In one particular embodiment, the second wheel absorbs energy from the turbocharger in response to the deceleration signal from the engine control unit to decelerate the turbocharger. In some embodiments, the hydraulically operated wheels may be positioned on the same shaft of, and between, the turbine and compressor of the turbocharger.Type: GrantFiled: February 3, 2011Date of Patent: December 23, 2014Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLCInventors: Harold Huimin Sun, David R. Hanna, Michael Levin, Eric Warren Curtis, F. Zafar Shaikh
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Patent number: 8915530Abstract: The present disclosure relates to methods of manufacturing vehicle frame assemblies. Some of the disclosed methods include forming a key and receptor arrangement between an interconnecting member, having a first material composition, and a cross-member, having a second material composition; attaching the interconnecting member and cross-member via the key and receptor arrangement at one location; inserting the interconnecting member and cross-member in a side rail; and welding the interconnecting member to the side rail at another location.Type: GrantFiled: August 30, 2011Date of Patent: December 23, 2014Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLCInventors: David Anthony Wagner, Michael M. Azzouz, Ari Garo Caliskan, Yuksel Gur, Sunil K. Kasaragod, Xiaoming Chen, John Edward Huber, Parameswararao Pothuraju, Jeffery Wallace
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Patent number: 8916649Abstract: The present invention relates to a process of producing an ethylene polymer composition in multiple stages, of which the first stage is preferably a slurry polymerization stage, in the presence of a catalyst system, comprising: a) a solid catalyst precursor, comprising a transition metal selected from titanium and vanadium; magnesium; a halide, optionally an electron donor; and a solid particulate material comprising an inorganic oxide, and wherein the median particle diameter, D50, of the solid catalyst precursor, based upon the total volume of solid catalyst precursor, is from 1 to 13 micrometers; and b) an organoaluminium compound.Type: GrantFiled: May 3, 2012Date of Patent: December 23, 2014Assignee: Dow Global Technologies LLCInventors: Patrick J. C. Schouterden, Ruddy A. J. Nicasy, Sarat Munjal, Robert J. Jorgesen, Burkhard E. Wagner
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Patent number: 8916669Abstract: Embodiments of the invention provide for a method of producing a silylated polyoxyalkylene polymer having at least one crosslinkable silyl group and at least one hydroxyl group in each molecule. The method comprises providing a polyoxyalkylene polymer having at least one unsaturated group and at least one alcoholic hydroxyl group in each molecule, wherein the polyoxyalkylene polymer includes an impurity double metal cyanide complex mixed therein, and wherein the polyoxyalkylene polymer has not been treated with a metal-coordinating compound; and adding to the polyoxyalkylene polymer a compound having a hydrogen-silicon bond and a crosslinkable silyl group in each molecule and a hydrosilylation catalyst to thereby carry out a hydrosilylation reaction, wherein the hydrosilyation reaction is performed in an absence of a metal-coordinating compound.Type: GrantFiled: May 26, 2011Date of Patent: December 23, 2014Assignee: Dow Global Technologies LLCInventors: Ling Zhang, Daniel A. Aguilar, Debkumar Bhattacharjee, William A. Koonce, Basudeb Saha
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Patent number: 8918253Abstract: An active vehicle suspension system includes an active damping mechanism operatively coupled to a vehicle wheel and configured for controlling a damping force applied to the wheel responsive to a control signal. A controller is operatively coupled to the damping mechanism and configured for generating a control signal to the damping mechanism responsive to velocity of the wheel in a downward vertical direction.Type: GrantFiled: June 25, 2012Date of Patent: December 23, 2014Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLCInventors: Russ Lee Norton, Benjamin Bulat, Greg Gregory Suter, Albert Chenouda Salib, David Michael Russell, Uwe Hoffmann, Marc Suermann
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Patent number: 8916655Abstract: Epoxy resin compositions utilizing phosphazene blocked azole compounds as curing catalyst are provided. Also provided are epoxy resins cured with phosphazene blocked azole compounds and methods of making cured epoxy resins using curing catalysts of phosphazene blocked azole compounds.Type: GrantFiled: April 30, 2010Date of Patent: December 23, 2014Assignee: Dow Global Technologies LLCInventors: Journey Lu Zhu, Ping Shao Ren, Shaoguang Feng
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Patent number: 8915070Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer readable storage media are described in which exhaust gas is routed to a hydrocarbon retaining device during starting, and purged to the engine intake manifold. Various alternative approaches are described for controlling operation and diagnosing degradation. Further, various interrelated configurations are described.Type: GrantFiled: May 23, 2013Date of Patent: December 23, 2014Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLCInventors: Michael James Uhrich, Shane Elwart, James Michael Kerns, Jason Aaron Lupescu
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Patent number: 8915065Abstract: In one example, a method of operating an engine having a diesel particulate filter in a vehicle, the particulate filter having a length and depth, includes performing particulate filter regeneration in response to temperature variation across the length and/or depth of the particulate filter.Type: GrantFiled: June 28, 2011Date of Patent: December 23, 2014Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLCInventors: Avra Brahma, Michiel van Nieuwstadt
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Patent number: 8916667Abstract: An ethylene-based polymer, which is a low density polyethylene (LDPE), obtained by free radical polymerization of ethylene, and wherein the LDPE has a GPC parameter “LSP” less than 1.60. An ethylene-based polymer that comprises the following features: a) at least 0.1 amyl groups per 1000 total carbon atoms; b) a melt index of 0.01 to 0.3; c) a z-average molecular weight of Mz (conv.) of greater than 350,000 g/mol and less than 425,000 g/mol; d) a gpcBR value from 1.50 to 2.05, and e) a MWD(conv) [Mw(conv)/Mn(conv)] from 6 to 9. An ethylene-based polymer that comprises the following features: a) at least 0.1 amyl groups per 1000 total carbon atoms; b) a melt viscosity ratio (V0.1/V100), at 190° C., greater than, or equal to, 58; c) a melt viscosity at 0.1 rad/s, 190° C., greater than, or equal to, 40,000 Pa·s, and d) a gpcBR value from 1.50 to 2.25.Type: GrantFiled: March 13, 2013Date of Patent: December 23, 2014Assignee: Dow Global Technologies LLCInventors: Teresa P. Karjala, Lori L. Kardos, Wallace W. Yau, Jose Ortega, Alfred E. Vigil, Jr.
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Patent number: 8918242Abstract: Various embodiments include tools and methods for diagnosing connected services in a vehicle. Communication with a vehicle computing system in a vehicle may be established. A diagnostic connection to a diagnostics server may also be established. Vehicle information and diagnostic data from one or more connected services may be received from the vehicle computing system and transmitted via a diagnostic connection to the diagnostics server. A connected services diagnostic status for the vehicle may be determined based on the vehicle information and the diagnostic data. The connected services diagnostic status may be received from the server and output to a user.Type: GrantFiled: February 27, 2014Date of Patent: December 23, 2014Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLCInventors: Henry Thomas Ubik, Patrick Joseph Dwan, David M. DiMeo
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Publication number: 20140371987Abstract: An automotive vehicle steering wheel having at least one touch screen display associated therewith is disclosed. The touch screen display is configured to: (i) display interactive icons, each indicative of an associated vehicle functionality, (ii) receive selective input from a vehicle driver touching the icons to control said associated functionality; and (iii) selectively display passive information directed to the operation of the vehicle.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 3, 2014Publication date: December 18, 2014Applicant: FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES LLCInventor: John Rober Van Wiemeersch
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Publication number: 20140370191Abstract: A method for making a composite polyamide membrane including the steps of applying a polyfunctional amine monomer and polyfunctional acyl halide monomer to a surface of the porous support and interfacially polymerizing the monomers to form a thin film polyamide layer, wherein the method is includes at least one of the following steps: i) conducting the interfacial polymerization in the presence of a subject monomer comprising at least one carboxylic acid group linked to an aromatic moiety and wherein the aromatic moiety is further substituted with at least one of an acyl halide or anhydride functional group and ii) applying the subject monomer to the thin film polyamide layer. The invention includes many additional embodiments.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 3, 2013Publication date: December 18, 2014Applicant: DOW GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES LLCInventors: Steven Rosenberg, Steven D. Jons, Joseph D. Koob, Mou Paul, XiaoHua Qiu, Abhishek Roy, Chunming Zhang, Aman A. Desai
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Publication number: 20140371985Abstract: A method for controlling an active suspension system of a vehicle during a curb parking operation, so as to position a portion of the vehicle on a street and a portion of the vehicle on a curb. The method includes steps of activating a curb parking function of the active suspension system, acquiring inputs pertinent to the curb parking operation, and determining, by a controller, if a curb parking operation is feasible for the vehicle. If a curb parking operation is deemed infeasible, an operator of the vehicle is notified that the curb parking operation is infeasible. If a curb parking operation is deemed feasible, actuatable elements of the active suspension system are controlled to facilitate curb parking.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 29, 2014Publication date: December 18, 2014Applicant: Ford Global Technologies, LLCInventors: Eric H. Tseng, Davor Hrovat, Jianbo Lu, Mitch McConnell, Matthias Dehmel, Michael Seemann, Fredrick V. Owens
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Publication number: 20140371501Abstract: A process for dehydrogenating alkane or alkylaromatic compounds comprising contacting the given compound and a dehydrogenation catalyst in a fluidized bed. The dehydrogenation catalyst is prepared from an at least partially deactivated platinum/gallium catalyst on an alumina-based support that is reconstituted by impregnating it with a platinum salt solution, then calcining it at a temperature from 400° C. to 1000° C., under conditions such that it has a platinum content ranging from 1 to 500 ppm, based on weight of catalyst; a gallium content ranging from 0.2 to 2.0 wt %; and a platinum to gallium ratio ranging from 1:20,000 to 1:4. It also has a Pt retention that is equal to or greater than that of a fresh catalyst being used in a same or similar catalytic process.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 6, 2013Publication date: December 18, 2014Applicant: DOW GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES LLCInventors: Lin Luo, Devon C. Rosenfeld, Andrzej M. Malek
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Publication number: 20140367029Abstract: The present invention is directed to a unique composition and method for promoting adhesion of substrates to adhesives. The solution comprises a water based primer composition comprising: a) a hydrosylate of one or more alkoxysilyl amine; b) a surfactant; c) an organotitanate, organozirconate, or combinations thereof; d) optionally a fluorescing compound; and e) water. Preferably the organotitanate or organozirconate correspond to formula (I): wherein M is titanium or zirconium and R8 comprises hydrocarbyl ligands, which may optionally contain one or more heteroatoms comprising oxygen, nitrogen, sulfur or phosphorus, optionally two or more of R8 may combine to form a cyclic ring structure. Preferably the composition and method of the invention can be used to bond glass or plastic coated with an abrasion resistant coating, in particular a window for a vehicle, to other substrates such as metal or plastics.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 18, 2013Publication date: December 18, 2014Applicant: Dow Global Technologies LLCInventor: Stefan Schmatloch
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Publication number: 20140370160Abstract: The present disclosure provides a pouch for holding a fresh produce item and a method. The pouch includes (A) a body composed of at least one flexible multilayer film having a haze value less than 20%. The body further includes a front wall, a rear wall, and a gusset panel that form a closed chamber. (B) The gusset panel includes a rim. (C) A fresh produce item is located in the closed chamber. (D) The pouch has a chamber-to-rim ratio (mm) from 6:1 to 200:1. At least a portion of at least one wall is transparent permitting a person to see the fresh produce item in the pouch. The method includes displaying the fresh produce item through at least one of the front wall or the rear wall at a chamber-to-rim ratio from 6:1 to 200:1.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 12, 2013Publication date: December 18, 2014Applicant: Dow Global Technologies LLCInventors: Jill M. Martin, Haley Lowry, James F. Warner, Jihoon Kim, Thomas A. Herbert
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Publication number: 20140369803Abstract: Embodiments are disclosed that relate to controlling a compressor. In one example, method of controlling a compressor comprises regulating a discharge capacity of the compressor via a control current supplied to a control device, holding the control current supplied to the control device at substantially zero amperes for a first duration, and stepping the control current from substantially zero amperes to a sustainable current that provides a sustainable level of a performance parameter of the compressor.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 23, 2014Publication date: December 18, 2014Applicant: Ford Global Technologies, LLCInventors: Nicholas Dashwood Crisp, Mike Rowland, Peter Douglas Kuechler
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Publication number: 20140367980Abstract: An automotive vehicle fascia assembly is provided. The fascia assembly includes a bumper cover and an impact sensor assembly attached to, without mechanically fastening, the bumper cover. The sensor assembly includes a housing configured to selectively rotate from a first position to a second position, a sensor disposed within the housing, and a wall preventing access to the sensor when the housing is in the first position. The sensor is accessible when the housing is in the second position.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 7, 2013Publication date: December 18, 2014Applicant: Ford Global Technologies, LLCInventors: Jayagopal Appukutty, Steven Yellin Schondorf, Erich Kemnitz